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1. cbcowa+F4[view] [source] 2018-01-16 17:40:36
>>stable+(OP)
Hi! I'm the creator of Leap. Glad to answer questions here.
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2. probab+Q9[view] [source] 2018-01-16 18:07:19
>>cbcowa+F4
I'll go straight to the difficult questions:

1. I thought gender-based discrimination was illegal. How is Leap not illegal?

2. One of the main objections of "gentleman's clubs" was that their (male) members had access to important networking contacts, putting women in unequal foot in an unfair way when it came to businesses. Wouldn't Leap be unfair in the same way?

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3. rubico+id[view] [source] 2018-01-16 18:26:27
>>probab+Q9
I am interested in the answers to these tough questions as well. I can sympathize with the position women are in and can understand the strong desire to form an organization like Leap. To that end, I applaud and support them.

However, I do wonder about comments like this:

> "a community where the core culture was set by women, and the software and product decisions were also made by women"

Progressives are currently combatting this same kind of toxic / exclusionary behavior in men that exacerbates the inequality between men and women to this day.

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4. notyou+mr[view] [source] 2018-01-16 19:37:08
>>rubico+id
Just wait until the real fun starts - it will soon become apparent that among a group that identifies as "women" there are those who would command the vast majority of the available resources, just like it happens among the group that identifies as "men" at which point that group would also need to be sliced and diced into subgroups with specific rules applied towards say... cis-women vs. non-cis-women or cis-women-that-look-like-karlie-kloss (or Iman)
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